History YMMV / NickiMinaj

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* UncannyValley: Her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6j4f8cHBIM Stupid Hoe video]], particularly Nicki Minaj's ass within flashes... that's just not natural.

* CriticalResearchFailure: "Chun-Li" incorrectly states that the titular character the song is named after is a villain in [[Franchise/StreetFighter the franchise]] she's from. Juri Han or Decapre[[note]]as would [[VideoGame/FinalFight Poison]] if one counted Street Fighter characters who debuted outside of the franchise[[/note]] would've been much better choices to name-drop in that particular line[[note]]"So they can get on their fucking keyboards and make me the bad guy, Chun-Li"[[/note]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: "Super Bass" was promoted to a single due to its massive popularity and promotion from Music/TaylorSwift and Music/SelenaGomez.

** With Miley Cyrus after the "What's good?" incident. A good demo of the split is that Nicki's fans call it an Awesome Moment, Miley's fans call Nicki out for not letting Miley respond and for purtting twitter beef on blast on live TV, and fans of both or neither just call the whole thing blown out of proportion.

* Her relationship and marriage with a known sex offender Kenneth Perry is proving to be this, especially as his victim has spoken out about his sexual battery of her and subsequent harassment from Minaj to keep quiet about the incident. This has split her fanbase, as many don't care and love Nicki to others disavowing her completely.

* NeverLiveItDown: People are already calling this in regards to Nicki tweeting that she "believes in what the bible says"(I.E. being against gay people) in regards to why she did not tweet her support for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. The fact that Nicki began tweeting advertisements for her music and blocked people pointing out how offensive she was being did not help. At all.
** ZigZagged. Nicki's extreme usage of Nazi imagery and decision to compare herself to Hitler in her "Only" lyric video has also proven unsurprising hard to live down amongst those aware of it (though media was happy to kind of let the whole thing blow over without a word, meaning that a lot of people who likely would have taken this stance don't actually know about it).
** Many hip-hop fans have also called this following Remy Ma's diss track "Shether" in 2017. Compared to the vicious, 7-minute long [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech character assassination]] Remy delivered, Nicki's response with "No Frauds" was criticised by many for being too short and lyrically weaker, as well as too late to arrive. Many felt it damaged her claim to the title "Queen of Rap", and the fact that the single didn't do very well on the charts made things worse.
** Her decision to slut-shame Cardi B for a history of pole-dancing has prompted even more backlash, given how hypocritical and sexist such behavior is. The fact that Cardi B's so-called "crime" to warrant this behaviour was getting a #1 single with a song that wasn't a Nicki diss-track does little to help, making Nicki read as whiny and bitter more than anything.
** Her collaboration with 6ix9ine, a rapper who has plead guilty to using a ''child'' in a sexual performance, on the track "FEFE" left a sour taste in the mouths of many fans.
** Her dating, and getting a marriage license for, Kenneth Petty, a ''registered sex offender'' convicted of attempted rape and manslaughter, also did not go well.

** Her decision to slut-shame Cardi B for a history of pole-dancing has prompted even more backlash, given how hypocritical and sexist such behavior is. The fact that Cardi B's so-called "crime" to warrant this behavior is.... getting a #1 single with a song that wasn't a Nicki diss-track does little to help, making Nicki read as whiny and bitter more than anything.

** The song "Roman's Revenge" was criticized for featuring Eminem rapping his typical homophobic and misogynistic lyrics. Some critics believe that [[CampGay Roman Zolanski's]] revenge is on Eminem. Even more likely since she revealed in a interview that Roman Zolanski is gay.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The DoubleEntendre of the song "Truffle Butter." While the song uses "truffle butter" correctly referring to the food, it's also the term describing...well as Website/UrbanDictionary defines it as....[[note]]"Truffle butter is when you pull you dick out of the asshole and continue fucking her pussy, and the tan buttery substance around her pussy is truffle butter."[[/note]]

** Arguably her collaboration with 6ix9ine, a rapper who has plead guilty to using a ''child'' in a sexual performance, on the track "FEFE" left a sour taste in the mouths of many fans.

** Arguably her collaboration with 6ix9ine, a rapper who has plead guilty to sexual misconduct, on the track "FEFE" left a sour taste in the mouths of many fans.

* CriticalDissonance: "The Night Is Still Young" was largely panned by critics with descriptors like "bland" and "perfunctory," [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks due to its different sound]] (a perfectly danceclub-tailored beat and lyrics such as "The night is still young and so are we" and "How dare we sit quietly and let the world pass us by?") On the other hand, a lot of people adore the song for the exact reasons critics hated it, viewing it as a touching ode to friendship and youth.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Many fans (at even some non-fans) consider her verse on Music/KanyeWest's "Monster" to be one of her best, considering she changes accents and flows effortlessly a dozen times during it. Even Music/BonIver said it was.

** Pills N Potions seems to have found her perfect blend of hip-hop and pop

* CriticalDissonance: "The Night Is Still Young" was largely panned by critics [[TheyChangedItSoNowItSucks due to its sound]] with descriptors like "bland" and "perfunctory", with a radio-tailored beat and lyrics such as "The night is still young and so are we" and "How dare we sit quietly and let the world pass us by?" On the other hand, a lot of people adore the song for the exact reasons critics hated it, viewing it as a touching ode to friendship and youth.

** The Nazi imagery in the "Only" lyric video. Several people criticized it, feeling it was a tasteless both in its appropriation of nazi imagery and its release on the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht (a remembrance of a particularly brutal Nazi push against Jews). Minaj apologized for the questionable imagery, but the video's producer, Jeff Osborne, defended it. He stated that nazi imagery is a perfectly valid [[PuttingOnTheReich trope]] that's everywhere in popular culture, and to single them out specifically was hypocritical. A third group wondered what exactly a song about Nicki Minaj's sex life has to do with the Third Reich.

* FandomRivalry: With Miley Cyrus after the "What's good?" incident. A good demo of the split is that Nicki's fans call it an Awesome Moment, Miley's fans call Nicki out for not letting Miley respond and for purtting twitter beef on blast on live TV, and fans of both or neither just call the whole thing blown out of proportion.

** ZigZagged. Nicki's extreme usage of Nazi imagery and decision to compare herself to Hitler in her *Only* lyric video has also proven unsurprising hard to live down amongst those aware of it (though media was happy to kind of let the whole thing blow over without a word, meaning that a lot of people who likely would have taken this stance don't actually know about it)

** Her decision to slutshame Cardi B for a history of pole-dancing has prompted even more backlash, given how hypocritical and sexist such behavior is. The fact that Cardi B's so-called "crime" to warrant this behavior is.... getting a #1 single with a song that wasn't a Nicki diss-track does little to help, making Nicki read as whiny and bitter more than anything.

** The video for "Turn Me On." It involves her being a clockwork porcelain robot coming to life.

** Comparing Minaj to the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Jynx, which superficially (and unintentionally) resembles a SassyBlackWoman with long blonde hair, especially in its original design where it ''had'' black skin. [[note]]For those who are wondering, it now has purple skin due to {{Blackface}} reasons, which also caused a number of [[MissingEpisode banned]] episoses of the anime.[[/note]]

** Comparing Minaj to the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Jynx, which superficially (and unintentionally) resembles a SassyBlackWoman with long blonde hair, especially in its original design where it had black skin.

** The song ''Roman's Revenge'' was criticized for featuring Eminem rapping his typical homophobic and misogynistic lyrics. Some critics believe that [[CampGay Roman Zolanski's]] revenge is on Eminem. Even more likely since she revealed in a interview that Roman Zolanski is gay.

* [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct She Can Really Act]]: Her cameo on ''Film/{{The Other Woman|2014}}'' and her voice-over on ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' as Sugilite show she works really well in acting and puts her training from her early career days to work. This also comes through in some of her songs when she raps in a different accent or persona.

* SnarkBait: She may have a wide degree of fans, but her hatedom is one of the bigger ones, too, which was fueled after the ''Roman Reloaded'' album.

* TearJerker: A good portion of The Pinkprint qualifies. The first three tracks are all ballads about Nicki's destroyed relationships in her love life and family troubles. The album becomes more upbeat after that, but around Pills N Potions it slopes right back into depressing. The Standard Edition ends with Grand Piano and Bed of Lies, both the farthest you could get from something like Anaconda

* UncannyValley: Her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6j4f8cHBIM Stupid Hoe video]]. Have fun getting this out of your mind.
** Nicki Minaj's ass. Viewable in flashes in the above video... that's just not natural.
* UncannyValleyMakeup: Averted as of 2014, since she has taken on a more natural look as her previous weird style has gone out of fashion (displayed by most artists abandoning said fashion, and the few who continue to use it having diminished sales).

* EarWorm:
** "Your love, your love, yeah, your love, your love, yeah, your love, your love, yeah, your love, your love, yeah..."
** [[SampledUp "Oh wha-oh!"]]
** "Ruh, ruh, like a dungeon dragon!"
** "How do you that shit? How do you that shit? How do you? How do you?..."
** "WE GOT TUM-TUMS OVA HERE BIGGA THAN A MONSTA"
** “Plates say Chun-Li, drop the Benz off!”
** "Boy, you got my heart beat running away, beating like a drum and it's coming your way! Can't you hear that boom-ba-doom-boom-boom-ba-doom-boom-bass, he got that super bass!"
** "You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe!"
** "Y'all want the full Roman?"
** "POUND THE ALARM!"
** "Dick in yo' face,put my dick in yo' face!"
** "Take your medication Roman, take a short vacation Roman, you'll be okay..."
** "Bitches ain't shit and they ain't say nothing, a hundred motherfuckers couldn't tell me nothing. I beez in the trap, bee-beez in the trap"
** "These girls fall like dominoes, dominoes..."
** "Starships were meant to fly, hands up and touch the sky. Can't stop cos we're so high, let's do this one more time."
** "Banging my drum like dum da dee day, i know you want it in the worst way, I wanna hear you callin my name like hey mama, mama. Hey mama mama.
** '''ALL OF "ANACONDA" COUNTS.''' But especially:
--> And he telling me it's real, that he love my sex appeal
--> Say he don't like 'em boney, he want something he can grab
--> So I pulled up in the Jag, and I hit him with the jab like
--> '''[[EarWorm Dun-d-d-dun-dun-d-d-dun-dun]]'''

** Her dating, and getting a marriage license for, Kenneth Petty, a ''registered sex offender'' convicted of attempted rape of a minor and manslaughter, also did not go well.

* HilariousInHindsight: After Nicki's [[TakeThat diss-laden verse]] on Gucci Mane's "Make Love" sparked an [[TakeThatTitForTat ongoing feud]] with RemyMa, it's ironic that Gucci's own verse has this line:

** Even people who hate her think the long descending note she hits in "Turn me On" is bloody wicked.

** Whether or not she's in a DorkAge as of the end of 2018. Her fourth album ''Queen'' did fine critically and commercially but the blithering diss record by Remy Ma and the rise of Creator/CardiB impacted her status.